The story fast forwards to the age where Samson is now wanting to marry and decides on wanting to marry a Philistines rather than his own kind. Scripture points out in v 4 that this was the Lord's intent. Obviously, his parents reject the idea since the Philistines are "dirty" or uncircumsized. The other issue is that there is no mention that the woman has to be a virgin either. With the Philistines customs, the wife stays with her family and the husband is a gift-bearing visitor. The lion incident is also interesting since it was to show the Lord's power with him. He did observe the dietary laws of a Nazarite which was interesting but neglected the other parts which included not touching dead carcasses when he gathered the honey off the dead body to eat. He did however bring his parents to decided upon who he was going to marry.
Decent weekend since I was able to spend some quality time with GG and the rest of the family over the weekend. Saturday was costly but worth it with a dinner at the Palm before the show. Yesterday at church had some great preaching and SS lesson. Got home at a reasonable time as well as being down here. The Oscars were ok but the hosting and the other stuff was too edgy and not relevant to the events.
Praise for today: Help me, O Lord my God, save me in accordance with your love. Let them know it is your hand , that you, O Lord, have done it. Psalm 109: 26-27
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